“I
met with Fairfield County physicians over the winter on the topic of
continuing medical education and the importance of adding behavioral
health training,” Conroy said. “This is where the concept of this bill was born.”

“While
most physicians would not argue these topics are important, depending
on one’s medical specialty, many of these topics are not CMEs that
relate to the area of the practitioner’s
practice, nor do they necessarily reflect the professional needs of the
doctor,” Thompson said in testimony to the legislature’s Public Health
Committee. “Case in point, a psychiatrist does not treat infectious
disease.”

By
law, physicians applying for license renewal must have completed at
least 50 contact hours of CME during the previous 24 months.

Physicians
are exempt from
CME requirements during their first license renewal.

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